Sneebsey
Songster
The grey birds are actually blue; it's normal for the depth of colour to vary; your cockerel is mid-range but has poor lacing. I've heard that breeding blue to black can cause darker offspring, though I tend to see variations in shade regardless of what they are bred from. The blue pullet is likely from your black hen.
The White is from your red hens; they are the only ones with dominant white, which dilutes black to white. You see more white on her than her mother as Storm is extended black, Talon appears to have a single copy of either birchen or extended black and a copy of partridge or wildtype. Here's a similar cross (two birds at right and centre) I did between a lavender araucana cockerel (so extended black) and a red hen. See the black and red leaking through the dominant white.
Any barred birds are male; they are black sex links.
The White is from your red hens; they are the only ones with dominant white, which dilutes black to white. You see more white on her than her mother as Storm is extended black, Talon appears to have a single copy of either birchen or extended black and a copy of partridge or wildtype. Here's a similar cross (two birds at right and centre) I did between a lavender araucana cockerel (so extended black) and a red hen. See the black and red leaking through the dominant white.
Any barred birds are male; they are black sex links.
